Growing Babies

The baby boy above was almost nine lbs. when he was born. The locals are all short people so he is much bigger than the other two babies that were born with in weeks of each other. This little girls mother looks like she might be out of high school, but I wouldn't bet on it. Thank You to Monica Wiggins for sending little girl clothes and some baby toys for the kids. Also a big Thank You to Gina Blankinship for sending diapers, wipes, bottles and such. The mother's appreciate everyone's generosity. They have so little, it amazes me how they make it. Our internet has been down most of the week end and it is still questionable as to how many times I will have to try to post this. Wish me luck! I have already tryed three times.

Softball Field

It's pretty hard to see but there is a baseball backstop in the background of this field. This is the softball field on Ebeye. It is also part of the trash dump. The mounds you see in the background are mounds of trash. They play softball on this field during the week in the evenings. No sliding into the bases. Count your blessings people!! The plane that delivers mail to Kwaj broke down at the beginning of the week so we did not get any mail until Saturday night. The mail employees came in Sunday and sorted everyone's mail and opened for a couple hours so everyone could get caught up on their mail. We should have another big load on Tuesday. Just part of the package. We had a good number of kids and adults Sunday for worship. We took two very full taxi's over and ended up with three coming back. I'm not sure how we did that, but whatever works! It was a good time to worship God. The babies that were born at the beginning of August are all growing so fast.

New Address

Our Post Office has changed our address to further assist in their sorting process. Our new address is: CMR #701 PO BOX 1652 APO, AP 96555-0017 It will get to us with the other address but probably not as fast (which is crazy anyway out in the middle of the pacific ocean). There is no such thing as fast on Kwaj. It comes with the package.

Baby Clothes and School Supplies

Lee and I carried as much as we could carry to church yesterday. Thank you to Monica Wiggins who sent some baby girl clothes and school supplies for all the kids. Monica's children, Austin and Rachel, also sent a cash donation they had saved and given to the children on Gugeegue. What a wonderful way to teach your children at a young age to give to others. The mothers divided the school supplies among the kids. Thank you also to Bonnie Howell who sent several boxes of baby boys clothes. I intended to get a pic yesterday of the mothers dividing them up, but the taxi's were waiting on us. The mothers were so grateful to get the clothes. They said to give you all a big "Thank you." Most do not have a job and they would have so little without your help. One of the mothers gave me the plant hanger on the left. It really is pretty with a plant in it but I was afraid it would walk off outside. It is made out of sea shells. The fish on the right was given to us for Christmas. God's Blessings to you all.